Captain America Shield - 3D Printed Cosplay

Remember like over a month ago When I was gonna give you a birthday present that I never did. Yeah That is so cool. What's up guys? I'm Sam. This is Sam's designs, and I haven't uploaded in over a month I'm really sorry for the huge delay guys. I've been super busy with working 40 hours a week and This is the biggest project I have ever tackled on this channel seriously It took over a month to make hundreds of hours of work into it over 25 gigabytes of footage So yeah, this was a huge undertaking, and I'm really hoping people get something out of it I'm really enjoy it so if you could share comment like subscribe Whatever you can do to help spread this video would be greatly appreciated so without further ado. Let's get started so the first step for this project is to visit the thingiverse link in the description and Download all the files from there and there's a link to a Spreadsheet that I created where you put in some measurements for the target person for the shield and it spits out the scale to print Each piece at so go ahead and download those and put them at the correct scale while you're doing that Visit the Amazon link in the description and buy all the parts. They're all needed for this project The total at time of filming is about thirty six dollars that might vary a little bit You also need enough plywood to make the circle base for the shield and you just need to find something That's not too splintery because you don't want the person wearing it to get slivers in their arm So the first step for this project is to cut your wooden circle to the correct dimensions And there's legitimate ways to cut a circle But I don't have the money for any of those and I don't have the proper tool so my solution was to drill two holes in a piece of wood one radius apart and screw one down to my piece of plywood stick a pencil through the other one and Spin it around and that scores a nice circle on the piece of wood and then just use my jigsaw to cut it through So I went super slow to make sure that it cut super well For reference this clip is playing at a thousand percent speed so you can see how slow I was going So the next step once you have the wood circle cut and all the pieces printed is to screw all the pieces to the wood If I had thought this through correctly I would have designed it so you can put it together from the inside out so that errors wouldn't accumulate as you go But you just have to go slow and make sure that everything lines up correctly So that you don't get a piece in the middle that won't fit in Each layer took me about 30 minutes to an hour if I was working quite quickly And it should take you even less now that I've worked out all the bugs now There's one discovery I made over the course of this project that really saved my life, and that is MH ready patch So I included this in the Amazon list and this stuff is phenomenal for speeding up the finishing process So my process was just to apply copious amounts over the entire thing and then once it's dry sand it down with a hundred grit sandpaper so once you've sanded down all the MH ready patch to the grooves you're gonna want to apply a coat of fill primer and Then repeat the process over and over until it's super glossy smooth Took me about five or six times of this process to get it super smooth and on the last one I sanded all the way up to 2,000 grit sandpaper and once you've done that you're ready to paint Next you're ready to tape off the center and the second ring So this is for the red paint job And the way I did this was just to lay down Painters tape and cut it with the absolute sharpest knife I could find The sharper the knife the better because you're just gonna have better luck with those smooth Fine lines, and this is absolutely the most painstaking part of the project But don't worry. It's worth it for the satisfaction of peeling the tape off later So then I just painted it with the red spray paint I did three layers until I was happy with it You can do even more and when you're done, and it's dried to a tacky finish Then you're gonna want to peel off the tape and this is so satisfying Then you're gonna repeat this process for the blue layer And I used a garbage bag to save on painters tape for this I just cut a hole in the center and taped off the detail lines and that saved me from using a whole bunch of tape to cover all the outside rings and For the last painting step you're gonna want to use silver to complete the last ring and the star and I was least happy with this part of the project because the glossy silver really reveals all the imperfections But I think I could have done it better by using just a little bit more ready patch and maybe doing a few more coats So I'd recommend doing that So the last step for this project is to attach the handle and the arm piece to the shield And I made this for my little brother's birthday So I just had him stick his arm right in it and screwed the pieces down right over top of him The only thing you want to make sure of is that the star is pointing up Because it's not gonna look good if the stars pointing in a different direction and once you're done that the project is over Thank you guys so much for watching to this point in the video. I hope you liked it I hope you like comment subscribe and share and stay tuned for the super cringy reveal